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They're more about spending than taxes. Honestly, they have pretty much nothing to do with the real tea parties.
They are supposed to be grass roots (although if you tune in to any conservative media you'll know it is anything but.) protests against the gov'ts recent record spending bills. Right now we are amassing unbelievable amounts of debt, and the gov't is bailing out failed companies, rewarding irresponsible behavior.
Ok, so protest. I'm alllll fuckin for it.
But seriously? Like this?
This whole tea party thing started out as a libertarian protest about irresponsible spending.
It evolved into this Fox sponsored bitch-all for the right. Now it is being pushed hard by lobbyists from the Bush admin. like Dick Armey, consolidated Citizens for a Sound Economy, funded by the Koch family, and Empower America, a lobbying firm, that had fought against healthcare and minimum-wage efforts while hailing deregulation.
As far as the whole tea party theme. I get the tie-in with taxes being involved. But, uhhh, guise. You HAD representation. We all voted, you lost.
Now, this thing has happened, that always happens when you get either cooperate sponsors, the far right, religious groups, or lets just say it, white people, involved in anything with rebellious roots. It's been cleaned up, but with the image that lets you know there was a board meeting on how to keep its "edge." There is no rebellion here, or chance of being arrested. This thing is nothing like the o.g. t.p.

Yeah, these tea parties, that's a real grassroots rebellion we have here... that's sponsored by the former GOP, a massive news media corporation, various big companies and fundamentalist Christian organizations.

How f*cking stupid do they think we are?

However it is nice to see the Republicans finally embrace their love for teabagging.

I'm military... I keep my residency in florida (I was in alabama) so I didn't have to pay the state tax. Now I'm in TX were the taxes on everything are f-ing rediculous.

thats exactly what I did when I served, banked more money than most.

I also heard in TX its not illegal to murder your wife and the man she is cheating on you with in your home if caught.

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